Boston Globe / Living / Arts / As GM, her job is to pump up sports talk and hard rock

[Paul Hopfgarten]

Ignorance is bliss theory of media reporting?

In the (Manchester NH)Union Leader this week, the local reporter covering
Derry couldn't even get the correct vote on a Town Council bond vote (she
had it "unanimous" opposed to the bond, where in reality the vote was 2 in
favor and 5 opposed [including myself]). To me that's a fairly significant
screw-up.

-Paul Hopfgarten
-East Derry NH

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Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 9:25 PM
To: Dan Billings
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Subject: Re: Boston Globe / Living / Arts / As GM,her job is to pump up
sports talk and hard rock


<<On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 21:11:07 -0500, "Dan Billings"
<billings@suscom-maine.net> said:

> You would be safe to work under the assumption that pretty much
> everything you read in the Globe (or most papers) is as high a
> quality as the radio reporting.

It's the usual situation: we notice these sorts of errors because we
have more specialized knowledge than the reporter does.  We don't
notice other sorts of similar errors because we share the reporter's
level of ignorance.  This is not necessarily a bad thing.

-GAWollman